and because Americans have trouble telling a genuine reform from a travesty cementing the unjust status quo of privatized predation in place with the force of law.

Obama!

Becoming the NEW 4% class---- Private schools for the kiddies and Gated Communities with licensed and armed Zimmerman types keeping the Riff Raff Out

Mine went up by less that 1% (0.877%, to be exact). Why? Because I work for the federal government.

Government health care, now: if the feds can provide us bureaucrats with robust, affordable health care, they can do it for everybody.

Not too bad. I expected an increase. I have health insurance through my employer.

...until last year. Then the HMO option was gone and we had to select a PPO.

Changes? The PPO requires a $1,000 deductible; the HMO didn't. So I'm making $1,000 less than I did the year before (oh, and my employer froze our salaries some six years ago, too, so I have inflation and cost-of-living expenses to contend with).

I want out and hope I can do so in a couple of years...

All the reports I've read seem to conclude the ACA has contained costs over the past couple of years versus where they were headed otherwise.

Does your income rise by 19 percent every year?

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since 2011 and I pay my family's bills so I would know if it had.

Not trying to pick on you specifically but that has been the reaction to anyone who has anything negative to say about the ACA.

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, if we question one set of statements then we should question all of them.

that any increase in my premiums would probably be in line with the OP's original estimate which states that on average the rates have gone up by $1200 since 2011, which amounts to about $31 a month over 3 years. An amount I would consider negligible, in my case over a 3 year period. Now my situation may not fit everyone's situation and some may consider a $31 monthly increase over 3 years for medical insurance premiums something only the Koch Brothers would tolerate. I happen to disagree. I'm certainly glad that it hasn't risen any more than that, and I'm sure that the reason it hasn't is due to the ACA. Without it I shutter to think what the rates would be with the unrestrained forces on the insurance companies before it went into affect.